Challenge
A haiku sonnet is four connected theme haikus concluded with one rhyming couplet. (Haiku non-rhyming 3 lines 5/7/5) The subject is 4 1people who have changed your life. $25 prize.
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Blood
Mother kind and warm,
Tried so hard to be perfect,
Hard-won approval.
Dad didn’t mean it,
Didn’t know another way,
Softness came too late.
Grandmother loved.
Nothing more and nothing less.
Wounded and unwound.
Brother; protector.
Nothing escaped his sharp eye.
First friend, for always.
Thin is water and thick is blood,
That shouldn't matter, because so is mud.
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